scholarly journals Tackling Gender poverty relations within Households through micro-credit Programs in Uganda

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 128-139
Author(s):  
John Busingye
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Conflict Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Credit Programs ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Micro Credit

The study mainly set out to investigate the factors that influence gender relations in Uganda.  This paper contributes to the body of knowledge by determining the local gender context influencing  gender  poverty relations in the face of micro-credit programs and practices in Uganda. The study was grounded on the feminist conflict theory. Women accessing and utilizing microcredit programs from Savings and Credit Cooperative Organizations (SACCOs) in Mbarara (MM) and Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipalities (BIM) of South West Uganda provided the contextual setting of the study. Data was collected from a total of 198 respondents by use of interviews and focused group discussions. The study findings show that age, women’s marital status, the level of formal education, number of children depending on women, assets for collateral and signature requirements were the main factors influencing gender poverty relations within households in Uganda. The study contends that poverty and gender relations influence access to microcredit programs.  The study then recommends that SACCOS should formulate gender inclusive strategies like alternative means of collateral and introduce women friendly modes of access to microcredit services as a strategy for tackling poverty among women in Uganda. The government is also advised to sensitize the public about gender poverty  relations, human rights and increasing household income using the available media. 

scholarly journals Micro-finance and Women Empowerment

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Puspa Raj Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Economic Status ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Credit Programs ◽  
Small Change ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Micro Credit

This paper examines the effects of women’s participation in group-based micro-credit pro-grams on a large set of qualitative responses to questions that characterize women’s autonomy and gender relations within the household. The data come from a special survey carried out in hill and tarai in 2004-2006 of Nepal. The results are consistent with the view that women’s participation in micro-credit programs helps to increase women’s empowerment. Credit program participation leads to women taking a greater role in household decision-making, having greater access to financial and economic resources, having greater social networks, having greater bargaining power compared with their husbands, and having greater freedom of mobility. Female credit also tended to increase spousal communication in general about family planning and parenting concerns. Ecologically, the higher impact on women’s empowerment was noticed in terai. The reason may be relatively lower social and economic status of terai women at the time of program initiation compared to that of hills. As a result, even a small change in their status would get reflected distinctly. The Journal of Nepalese Business Studies Vol. IV, No. 1 (2007) pp. 16-27

The Worldviews of Islamic Publics: The Cases of Egypt, Iran, and Jordan

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 299-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taqhi Azadarmaki ◽  
Mansoor Moaddel
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Islamic Countries ◽  
Ideal Number ◽  
Attitudes Toward Marriage ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Key Indicators

AbstractThis paper analyzes the religious beliefs, religiosity, national identity, and attitudes toward Western culture, family, and gender relations of the publics of three Islamic countries. It is based on national representative surveys of 3000 Egyptians, 2532 Iranians, and 1222 Jordanians that were carried out in 2000-2001, as part of the World Values Surveys. We first discuss the views of the respondents concerning key indicators of religious beliefs, religiosity, identity, and attitudes toward Western culture. Then, we describe variations in such values as the ideal number of children, attitudes toward marriage and women, family ties, and trusts in major social institutions in these three countries. Next, we present age and educational differences in religious beliefs, trust in mosque, identity, trust in government, attitude toward women and gender relations. We conclude by pointing to the variation in the nature of the regime as an important determinant of the variations in the worldviews among the public in these three Islamic countries.

PENDIDIKAN BERBASIS KESETARAAN GENDER: Studi Kebijakan Pemerintah dan Aplikasinya dalam Pendidikan

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Inayatul Ulya
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Gender Analysis ◽  
Normative Approach ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract Gender equality-based education is education that accommodate gender differences. This study aims to reveal the gender sensitivity insocial and educational as well as identify government policies in building gender equ ality and its applications in formal education. This study is qualitative with an inventory of government policies in building gender equality, and then analyze it with the reality of education in Indonesia. The approach used in this study is referring to the normative approach to the study of government policies in enforcing gender equality and its applications in formal education. The research data was collected using the techniques of literary study (library research). Materials that have been acquired and processed is described and analyzed by using descriptive interpretative paradigm and gender analysis. Although many efforts have been taken by the government for the realization of gender equality, but in the education sector still  show gender inequality. The indication can be seen from three aspects, they are not unequal participation in education for women, unequal educational material as well as the selection of majors unequal proportions of men and women. The phenomenon is not yet reflect the totality of gender equality education. Keywords:pendidikan, kesetaraan gender, kebijakan pemerintah

Christian Creations of New Spaces of Sexuality, Reproduction, and Relationships in Africa: Exploring Faith and Religious Heterotopia

2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Astrid Bochow ◽  
Astrid Bochow ◽  
Rijk van Dijk
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Relational Ethics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
History Of ◽  
Contemporary Situation ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Source Of Information

Abstract In many African societies today Christian churches, Pentecostals in particular, are an important source of information on sexuality, relationships, the body, and health, motivated in part by the HIV/AIDS pandemic but also related to globally circulating ideas and images that make people rethink gender relations and identities through the lens of ‘romantic love’. Contextualizing the contemporary situation in the history of Christian movements in Africa, and by applying Foucault’s notion of heterotopia, this introduction and the subsequent papers show that Christian doctrines and practices are creating social spaces of altering relational ethics, identities and gender roles that appeal especially to upwardly mobile women.

scholarly journals The Nature and Legal Position of Non-Formal Educators According to Indonesian Positive Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Mokh. Thoif ◽  
Sadjijono Sadjijono ◽  
Slamet Suhartono
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
National Education ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
National Education System ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Gender

A person or a human community needs learning (the need for knowledge, skills, and attitudes) to emerge, so there should be non-formal education. It’s in this capacity that non-formal education is said to be multi-audience, not only in terms of age, but also individual and social characteristics such as gender and gender, demographics, geography, occupation, formal educational background, and so on. Various problems are still often faced by these non-formal educators, where they should be guaranteed protection under the law. In fact, non-formal educators continue to experience discomfort conditions without an adequate protection system. Legal efforts to improve the status of non-formal educators according to the national education system, so that non-formal educators haven’t been recognized by the government even though they are temporary teachers who work in private educational institutions, so they haven’t received the protection and protection of the government as provided to teachers. Civil servants and private teachers.

scholarly journals Combination of Microcredit and Micro-Training with Mediating Role of Formal Education: A Micro-Enterprise Success Formula

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Waseem Ul Hameed ◽  
Tanveer Hussin ◽  
Muhammad Azeem ◽  
Muhammad Arif ◽  
Muhammad Farhan Basheer
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
The Body ◽  
Microfinance Institutions ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Unique Factor ◽  
Comprehensive Framework ◽  
Enterprise Success ◽  
Micro Credit

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop a distinctive formula (framework) for micro-enterprise success. As the success of micro-enterprise is under debate from many decades, however, the researchers and entrepreneurs are unable to find the unique factor to develop a comprehensive framework. Design/Methodology/Approach: The current study is based on conceptual framework. Prior studies are used to develop the framework and hypothesis. Moreover, conclusion is based on literature review. Findings: It is investigated that, microfinance factors (i.e., micro-credit and micro-training) has a positive relationship with micro-enterprise success. However, among all other microfinance factors (i.e., micro-saving, micro-insurance, social capital), micro-credit and micro-training have relatively higher effect on microenterprise performance followed by a level of education. Moreover, it is found that education mediates the relation between microfinance factors and micro-enterprise success. Implications/Originality/Value: This study contributed to the body of knowledge by developing a micro-enterprise success formula for researchers and entrepreneurs, which ultimately improve the performance of micro-enterprises. Hence, the current study is beneficial for microfinance institutions and other practitioners to enhance micro-enterprise success.

scholarly journals Does the Housing Unit's Type and Size Affect Health?

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Yuval Arbel ◽  
Chaim Fialkoff ◽  
Amichai Kerner
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Variables ◽  
The Body ◽  
Medical Studies ◽  
Place Of Birth ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Potential Implication ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Prevalence Of Obesity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

Recent medical studies have examined ways to offer more spatial planning opportunities to increase a person's level of physical activity. These studies demonstrate a decreasing prevalence of obesity in denser and less car-oriented communities with mixed land uses. Yet, apart from these environmental effects, the impact of characteristics of the housing unit itself (e.g., type and size), combined with socio-demographic variables (e.g., the number of children, marital status, place of birth, country of origin, and gender) on the body mass index (BMI) has not been examined previously. Based on a two-year longitudinal survey of the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), the current study examines this potential implication based on the BMI measure. Stratification by gender indicates opposite effects of suburbanization on projected BMI of women and men, who move from smaller condominiums in multi-family buildings to single family units and to larger apartments. 

scholarly journals POLA PENGASUHAN ANAK DALAM KONTEKS PENDIDIKAN PERAN PEMERINTAH DAN ORANG TUA

Perspektif ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-98
Author(s):  
Dicki Hartanto ◽  
Sri Yuliani
Keyword(s):  
Informal Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
National Education ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Government Role ◽  
The Government ◽  
Role Of Parents

This study would like to reveal the magnitude of the role of parents, especiallymothers in educating children and this should be one of the important considerationsin fostering a bright future family. But what happens is just the opposite, where withthe growing number of children, the easier it is for parents to hand over theireducation and care to other parties or people, including formal education institutions.This study uses qualitative methods through related literature review. The results ofthis study revealed the importance of the government playing a role in educationthrough special attention to the existence of formal and non-formal educationinstitutions. In addition, government care is also important in improving the quality ofeducation for mothers as informal education providers for children. Though as amother who has a big role in parenting and children's education plays a veryimportant role so that the influence of the planting of children's intelligence should berealized by the mother. In order to be able to compete with other countries in thefuture, then a great attention to efforts to empower children needs to be improved.The government through institutions such as the Minister of National Education, theMinister of Women Empowerment, Minister of Health, BKKBN and others canbecome pioneers through related policies. Of course the Government must strive sothat the interest is accompanied by providing sufficient knowledge to the mothers. Therole of parents in the context of education also needs to be realized and improved inthe future.Kata kunci: Childcare, Education, Government Role

Diaghilev and British Writing

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-92
Author(s):  
Susan Jones
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Responses ◽  
Literary Aesthetics ◽  
Ballets Russes ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Opening Up

This article explores the diversity of British literary responses to Diaghilev's project, emphasising the way in which the subject matter and methodologies of Diaghilev's modernism were sometimes unexpectedly echoed in expressions of contemporary British writing. These discussions emerge both in writing about Diaghilev's work, and, more discretely, when references to the Russian Ballet find their way into the creative writing of the period, serving to anchor the texts in a particular cultural milieu or to suggest contemporary aesthetic problems in the domain of literary aesthetics developing in the period. Figures from disparate fields, including literature, music and the visual arts, brought to their criticism of the Ballets Russes their individual perspectives on its aesthetics, helping to consolidate the sense of its importance in contributing to the inter-disciplinary flavour of modernism across the arts. In the field of literature, not only did British writers evaluate the Ballets Russes in terms of their own poetics, their relationship to experimentation in the novel and in drama, they developed an increasing sense of the company's place in dance history, its choreographic innovations offering material for wider discussions, opening up the potential for literary modernism's interest in impersonality and in the ‘unsayable’, discussions of the body, primitivism and gender.

Morphological Freedom and Medicine: Constructing the Posthuman Body

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luna Dolezal
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Cosmetic Surgery ◽  
The Body ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
Gender Reassignment ◽  
Common Parlance ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Body Practices ◽  
Health Function ◽  
At Will

The notion that the body can be changed at will in order to meet the desires and designs of its ‘owner’ is one that has captured the popular imagination and underpins contemporary medical practices such as cosmetic surgery and gender reassignment. In fact, describing the body as ‘malleable’ or ‘plastic’ has entered common parlance and dictates common-sense ideas of how we understand the human body in late-capitalist consumer societies in the wake of commercial biotechnologies that work to modify the body aesthetically and otherwise. If we are not satisfied with some aspect of our physicality – in terms of health, function or aesthetics – we can engage with a whole variety of self-care body practices – fashion, diet, exercise, cosmetics, medicine, surgery, laser – in order to ‘correct’, reshape or restyle the body. In addition, as technology has advanced and elective cosmetic surgery has unapologetically entered the mainstream, the notion of the malleable body has become intrinsically linked to the practices and discourses of biomedicine and, furthermore, has become a significant means to assert and affirm identity.

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